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campaigning is over. the head of sunday's vital parliamentary vote security services are on high alert with the shadow of violence looming over the central asian republics. candidate and now in the running to become the new must go in amongst the names of the surprises. plus kickbacks rockets hearing corruption and intimidation that's the treatment some georgians claim they're getting from their own government.

twenty four hour news live from moscow you're with r.t. welcome to the program. security is being stepped up and campaigning is now are forbidden in kyrgyzstan ahead of sunday's crucial elections the vote will create in central asia as first parliamentary democracy. go to peace going off reports on why the authorities believe that taking power away from the president is necessary for the country's stability. this is truly a crucial vote because it's meant to and instability and political chaos in the country for the past half a year or so kyrgyzstan has been plagued by violence and the seldom course of the country where we are now are among the most affected areas and there are fears that this violence could flare up once again during the election the former soviet republic has been struggling to achieve normality since former president. was overthrown from power in delhi street protests across the entire country especially

in the capital bishkek violent riots left dozens of people dead and put the country in a state of chaos people were protesting policies which went to people living in poverty and failed to increase the quality of life in kyrgyzstan for years the interim government held referendum which voted to build a parliamentary republic which is a milestone not only for kyrgyzstan but for the central asian region since this election will be held successfully it will change the way. it's planned that the president's powers will be curbed well the prime minister will have more power than the formal head of state this is significant for central asia since traditionally countries in this region are ruled by authoritarian leaders and this way. from such a political model for the first time in central asia twenty nine political parties

are taking part in this election which is an all time record for kyrgyzstan however there are genders or relatively similar to one another there is skepticism among the ordinary people here in kyrgyzstan who say that this election won't improve their lives because simply not ready for such a transition and while they won't be as effective apart from political unrest there just has also been suffering from ethnic violence in june. there were deadly ethnic clashes here in the city of course where we are now which is populated both by curious and nationals and as a result hundreds of people were killed thousands were injured and thousands more had to flee their homes and at the moment peace is we fragile here in the south of the country and in fact at the moment meaning people fear even going to the polling stations on sunday there have already been reports of threats sent out to the local population of why

a mess for many people at the moment the main priority is to rebuild their homes and businesses after june as well it's rather then to vote for any politician but despite this the authorities are still calling for people to go to the polling stations to take part in this election promising that it will provide the a long awaited stability of saudis are on high alert across the entire country both police and volunteers are monitoring the streets of the city's international observers have already arrived at the region and authorities say that everything is ready for the vote on sunday. reporting that moscow is moving closer to getting a new man the united russia party has presented full candidates to president dmitri medvedev and there have been several surprises in the sort of reports on this. the short list. for names that have been submitted by the united russia party t. president. on that list includes the deputy prime minister. now he's

considered a strong from run a full the position by many commentators so no surprise that he's been included in the list he's also you consider a very close ally of prime minister putin having worked with him extensively during his presidency and now in his role as prime minister so he's certainly a very strong hand but also on the list we have russia's transport and communications minister igor levitin and the governor of new girls valerie have now he actually spent ten as the former mellish deputy up until two thousand and five and nine hundred ninety six when the pope was running for that position and. was running for the position of vice and he was wounded in an assassination attempt against him after an explosion near his home which he survived the sudden interesting bit of background on that country that they're the only female of the group that mila. and now she is the current at the moment and her role actually

includes a lot of the social issues such as unemployment and health care and she's considered one of the most experienced candidates having worked in the government since nights ninety four and also in her position at the moment perhaps one of the best place to deal with some of the issues the president faith has already highlighted will be some of the main challenges facing whoever will become the new. i think all four candidates are perfectly capable of becoming mayor of moscow the city's leader would be responsible for upholding the quality of life shelving social issues carrying on the policies in effect and to dealing with future challenges the capital demands a series of new solutions which we will discuss with the new mayor. one of the main challenged. is it going to be these social reforms now muscovites going to be taping some of the social programs initiated on to this code that will be taking

things such as we travel on the most a much a pension is a benefit to teachers but they're still mostly many issues that they need but it will still be a tough thing to resolve issues such as police in and of course the constant headache muscovites which is the traffic problems that's an ongoing that will be some of the issues facing another major key role that they will be to gain the public's trust especially the head of the parliamentary elections that will be happening at the end of two thousand and eleven knows this is lack of trust of the cited as one of the main reasons the for the dismissal as the new mayor will not have run a good to make an impact on that muscovites up all the controversy surrounding this because he was always very good at bringing out a united russia from the muscovite the party going to be hoping that he whether

it's the elected will have the same sources sway with the public and head elections thanks to. you sir for reporting that still to come here on the program the race for the arctic heating up russian scientists say they have evidence to support the country's territorial claims in the resource rich region. look at the future of the u.s. dollar was emerging the world economy seek to separate from the greenback some seem to be heading for. the georgian president has proposed a new constitution supposed to put the country on a course towards becoming a european style democracy however many businessmen say mikhail saakashvili is version of people's rule is it all ends with their experience. has met entrepreneur who claim corruption and kickbacks are the real forces in the country. the so-called patchwork baths and central police e.

is the perfect place to relax and have your portal taken on the way out the historical building is now owned by a private company but if you years ago it was taken from its previous owner by the government getting gold here's an issue really still fears for his life he says in two thousand and seven he was approached by government agents who claimed he used illegal schemes to purchase the baths allegedly through the use of threats the officials forced the man to give up his business going to court says get a goal was not an option. they said that they know where my son's school is and they could say tomorrow and bust him for drug possession he said that they will make me sell everything and still it won't be enough to pay them off and they'll be begging for mercy i couldn't have done anything but they need my business to this day. immediately after seizing the property of the government sold it off since then google has been trying hard to get his business back. i wrote six complaints

asking them why they made me give up my business but the authorities are silent so we have not received a single response here why is it going to finance. a human rights activist says this case is not unique according to the salient have been numerous cases recently where the georgian government has illegally seized buildings wound and other property from private individuals large and small companies. when your thirty's openly use police in the prosecutor's office to take away people's property there's no other words coolant tera it's a kind of official racketeering aggressive and legal and purely criminal in its nature we can say directly to make a our second team is responsible for terrorizing the business sector. some georgian entrepreneur displaying the greed and political ambitions of the country's leaders

these businessmen say that in order to work safely and believe see you have to make generous donations to the ruling party or a large so powerful intrapreneur as in georgia make voluntary donations by paying off the government june the elections all of them pay no less than fifty five thousand us dollars these are official sums we can only guess how much they have to pay on official. golf feels betrayed by the government is still hoping to find justice for this man and many others who have seen for themselves so often president saakashvili his words differ from his deeds change can't come soon enough well georgian officials claim that they have created the groups in free me to do also lost their businesses due to pressure from the state it's nothing but spin and even though only if you want to speak out it looks like the movement against such record tearing into police see is getting stronger does. russia norway

denmark the u.s. and canada all nations locked into a race to claim the vast untapped resources thoughts a sit beneath the arctic region and russian researchers are working as hard as anyone in the far north to support their nation's claim r.t.c. catalina culture of went to meet them. there is a perception that it's hard to find a living soul in the arctic but not today this is how members of russia's north pole expedition dock with their colleagues on board the academic icebreaker the fur drip is the flagship of the northern fleet of your chill floating lab or a tree around a hundred scientists have spent seventy days in the arctic gathering evidence to support the claim that the man also bridge is part of russia's continental shelf the head of the expedition looks more than pleased with the results almost too but your d.v.d.'s today we are fully confirm the geological ally in our relief at the

bottom of the loss of bridge we have recovered quality material that corresponds to international standards. russia's biggest evidence gathering weapon is a multi beam eco sound known as spec it's hard to see and impossible to touch but it's talking to scientists from the bottom of the coldest ocean in the world. they can go as deep as twelve kilometers so it practically covers the whole spectrum of the ocean's depth there are no depths it cannot measure. it brings it to our competitors are using the similar equipment the american icebreaker healy for example works with the same sound it is convenient to analyze and compare collected by the same standards. rushes in a hurry to collect evidence for its implication to the un sheffield for twenty thirteen the same year another applicant canada comes up with its claims the

russian president's envoy to both poles says he's people are ready to work around the clock to fulfill the mission. where you did some say the russians do and then the arctic on apollo night we're not going to ask anybody water when we should do the arctic belongs to russia we want. in accordance with all international treaties and we will work day and night if necessary. in other deepwater eco sound will do its part of the job within the north pole expedition it will be installed on a movie on slow and gas information on the among those who preach nonstop for the next year the arctic may be of ostend embassy in popular image a nation but it is that stimulated that it contains a quarter of the world's untapped falso fuels flotsam gold diamonds and other precious metals around sixty percent of total arctic gas lies in the russian

exclusive economic zone so even without the models of reach being divided it seems that russia has already won becoming grace it's in the pressure of r t from the island of visa in the arctic. just now turning quarter past the hour here in moscow . and bear in mind you can find much more on all the stories we're covering at our website that's our dot com and here's a quick look at what's online waiting for you right now. modernisers soyuz rocket has blasted off into space on its way to the international space station to find out about its mission to dot com. also on our side not. find out why a russian prima ballerina is risque photo shoot proof to too much state.

the head of the international monetary fund is urging nations not to use their currency is as economic weapons of self defense dominique strauss kahn says the global financial crisis is not over with the likes of the u.s. struggling to avoid a double dip recession and as aussies lauren lyster reports some countries are already riding the wave of the dollar's downfall. financial leaders are getting together from all over the world this week to figure out how to boost the global economy at the annual i.m.f. and world bank meetings but many are talking about a break up the world is. the united states as the consumer of last resort in the financial world that's not called divorce but decoupling and everyone from a flurry of wall street analysts to nobel prize winning economist joseph stiglitz

are using the word now to describe this shift in power the baton is passed from countries like the united states on to countries like china brazil russia. india and beyond and you know growth in the global call will be much more dependent upon those countries than on the developed economies it explains how while the u.s. economy continues to look more bleak with analysts such as goldman sachs forecasting fairly to very bad scenarios of meager one to two percent growth or an all out double dip recession i would almost consider a double double bass the so-called bric countries are still on the ascent brazil's economy is estimated to grow seven point five percent this year with optimism to spare this to me from the maybe. it will be more than seven point five percent. and rounding out the r i c in that acronym russia india and china are estimated to post four point two five nine point seven and ten point five percent

gains respectively china's growth as an economic power on r.g.p. and children is to be made in china isn't lost on american politicians looking for someone to blame recalls help foreign companies group chinese jobs to make it with males would skyrocketing unemployment nor is it lost on the obama administration we believe it's very important to see more progress by the major emerging economies to more flexible. market oriented exchange rate systems geitner has increased complaints about china under valuing its currency ahead of the i.m.f. meeting you have to pick a reason why things are obviously can't be because of you so it has to be because. china is a very easy target but while politicians try to hold things together citizens are decoupling from the u.s. economy to people who once left their countries to come to the u.s.

for opportunities are heading back home the opportunities are definitely much better than what they are here they're setting up shop in countries poised to grow even as the u.s. teeters on the edge of decline while nothing appears different from the outside of the annual world bank and i.m.f. meeting here in washington nothing sounds different about the u.s. pressing for its agenda a more fiscal stimulus and currency regulation inside changes afoot as these global governing institutions figure out how to incorporate the power of the new emerging economies showing their economies grow far from us soil so to do their role behind these doors or lester our team washington d.c. and we'll have more on the i.m.f. meeting in our business bulletin that's coming away in just a couple of minutes now to let's get to some other news making headlines around the world this hour on the hungary and village of cologne tom has been evacuated due to the threat of a second toxic sludge it's feared the weakened wall of

a nearby reservoir may collapse hungry declared a state of emergency after thousands of tons of waste flooded several villages this week killing seven however despite the sludge reaching the river danube officials say there is little sign it has been significantly polluted. pakistan says it will reopen a key border crossing used to transport supplies to nato troops in afghanistan it was closed in protest to nato nato helicopters killed to pakistan. the soldiers in an air strike a ten day blockade caused tension with washington and left stranded trucks vulnerable to attacks in the latest incident suspected taliban militants armed with rockets set fire to around thirty tankers carrying fuel. thirty three chilean miners trapped underground since august have been reached by the drill digging a rescue tunnel now a specially designed capsule will be tested before it starts to bring the men up to

the surface one by one chile's mining minister says it could take anything from three to ten days to begin the rescue process. more than two hundred passengers have been rescued from a burning lithuanian ferry off the coast of germany several people were injured with some of them taken to hospital by helicopter the fire was caused by an explosion on the upper deck officials say tragedy was prevented by the fact that there were several other vessels nearby to help the burning craft. now the weekend edition of the business news with charlotte is coming your way in just a moment. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every

month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on our jeep. and i welcome to the business program with me they would follow global finance she says struggle to find a solution to difference is a very strange writes warning that's a currency war could home the walls economy as the international monetary fund's annual meeting got underway in washington policymakers warned the effort exports by embracing weak occurrences may provoke protectionism and trade imbalances i.m.f. managing director dominique strauss kahn said that using currencies as a tool of economic policy can lead to very bad situations in that the i.m.f. wants to better identify how the actions of one economy affects us. says no

domestic solution to global problem even if it is understandable that some individual column treat facing huge capital inflow wants to resist this kind of. source of instability and possible bubbles so i'm not blaming the injuries. which try was one shot to limit the influence of the capital inflows but it cannot be a long lasting solution what we need is more cooperation on the monetary side and national much a system. for europe and all bank officials economic crisis back in their region because the area is home to many many more young economies it's going to be a long recovery. country director for russia explains why russia has better prospects than many other developing economies. russia went into the

crisis with a very strong fiscal position and a very large you know world wealth funds and had reduced its debt to g.d.p. ratios so russia is a good risk if you think about it is when you know twelve exact number it's the low teens percent of g.d.p. it's a debt stock public debt. you did have a large private debt but you know the crisis has absorbed that at this point so there's more reassurances that private russian companies can we can meet our obligations so there is a lot of interest in russian financial instruments because it's a good risk compared to many other countries now the so-called currency wars has been one of the top issues the finest most is the heads of central banks of the i.m.f. meeting experts say it threatens to undermine all the work that's being done to restart the global economy the night i'm afraid of a has the background. then you have been is not. it's the economic equivalent of nepal critics say could lay waste

to the global economy countries lower their currencies to gain competitive advantage would kill global trade in the proves his there's no question that global demand is a lot there's not an awful room for everybody to grow their way by act according that's the norm when you have a financial crisis in a region in a country your exchange rate goes down it's one of the things that helped kill you now not everyone can grow their way the whole world can governments are making matters worse by printing cash and slashing the worst of paper money china and other leaders in the currency war the us has announced a new round of money printing which drew down its currency internees premier warned that pressure to revalue the yuan would result in social instability and economic disruption in china russia is a spectator in this war it's exports of gas and oil price in dollars well the ruble tends to fall the oil price russian experts. dominate the

tradable boards or tradeable manufactured goods anyway they have them in a more detail is where the relative competitive advantage of russia is there regardless of the exchange rate more or less so with this respect the absolute level of the exchange rate is over less significance for russia. true countries like china. and the. the risk for the coming year is that currency wars will slow global growth. business r.t. . russian market place on friday down for a second day is current and that's why i think the real cynical or cali were among the main ling's this and more than ten percent of them i think problem was that i am. again only r.t.s. around half a percent. now despite a strong start to the we for global stock markets driven by optimistic forecasts

for the end of the year almost all gains were raised by friday stephen explains and the last couple of these were actually have seen the markets give up almost all of the gains by general early in the week as the new worries have resurfaced about the outlook for two thousand and eleven the jobless situation in the states the fairly high level commodity prices and the markets have pulled back i mean overall because the week about one of the have two percent higher for all the major global in this is and the russian market as well now german energy companies that express their interest in the south stream pipeline among them being a s.f. which is said to be thinking about joining the project at the moment gazprom is just want european partner italy's any but e.t.f. of france is also in talks to participate on the subject of current gas supplies head of gas problem oleg say miller says it may exceed last year's expo.